{"id":2385,"date":"2025-04-07T12:33:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T12:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/salt-causes-depression\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T12:33:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T12:33:41","slug":"salt-causes-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/salt-causes-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"Salt causes depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-04-07 12:33:40<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Salt can cause depression.<BR><br \/>\nThe condiment is known to raise the risk of various health issues and a new study conducted on mice in China has found that eating too much can lead to depression-like symptoms.<BR><br \/>\nScientists at Nanjing Medical University say this is because a high salt diet affects the production of the cytokine IL-17A.<BR><br \/>\nCytokines are signalling proteins that help to control inflammation in the body \u2013 allowing the immune system to defend it from germs or other substances that can cause illness.<BR><br \/>\nIL-17A \u2013 an infection-fighting protein \u2013 has previously been linked to depressive symptoms.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Xiaojun Chen, lead author of the research, said: &#8220;This work supports dietary interventions, such as salt reduction, as a preventive measure for mental illness.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;It also paves the way for novel therapeutic strategies targeting IL-17A to treat depression.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-04-07 12:33:40 Salt can cause depression. The condiment is known to raise the risk of various health issues and a new study conducted on mice in China has found that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2387,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions\/2387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}